Quote (Many_Names @ 22 Oct 2024 10:52)
This isn’t how things work. By your logic, we could have ended the war from the air, using AI drones to eliminate every Hamas member. If this were a feasible option, we would already be doing it. Sadly, it’s more complicated than that.
We have many ways to potentially speed up the conflict, but fortunately for the people of Gaza, they’re not up against another Arab dictatorship—they’re up against a democracy. That’s why we have boots on the ground.
I’m not claiming that every IDF soldier is perfect, but the orders are clear: avoid civilian casualties.
I have no idea what the IDF is doing(no person does)(militaries don't share with the public anything that would undermine their agenda) but I do know what my country has supplied your country with in terms of military application technologies(literally some of if not the most advanced on Earth).
They have the capacity to do everything I've stated but like I've said to you throughout this conflict your COUNTRY and your people have shown RESTRAINT and even went as far as to "supply food/medicine" to the very country you are at "war with". Your country is using 1/10th or maybe even 1/100th what it could do but because the whole world sees your country like many in this thread you are under extreme scrutiny.
The US did NONE of the "nice things" your country has done for the average Gazan. We would've like I said carpet bombed the country, taken all the backlash and criticism of the world KNOWING full well no one could stop us from doing it and also we'd never be held accountable.
Criticism should fall on the US military ALONE or in the majority but you don't see it. Why? Ask any country that talked "bad" on the UN floor of US "policies". Your country is DONE. Decapitated for even challenging the "status quo".
There should be more criticism of US military contractors like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Booze Allen Hamilton, amongst several others which do business with the IDF(your country is one of our biggest customers).
I own shares of many of these companies and I've made a lot of money since 10/7 and I'm just a regular US citizen with modest money. I know someone who works for Raytheon and made HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of dollars in stock options because right when 10/7 happened every US military contractor surged 15% in a week.
War is big business and we all know that but are the companies that got handed TRILLIONS in tax payer money liable when they give your country BILLIONS in military assets? They should be but they never are. Just like banks funding both sides of wars. Never held accountable.
How Americans still can't see this or just "close their eyes and pretend it's not happening is beyond me".
I have family and friends who work for our military or contractors they don't value Israeli or Gazan life they care about the MONEY they are making and that's it.
How could it not be any more clear when the US invaded the ME over reasons we all now know aren't true or were perverted. My two good high school friends served multiple tours in Iraq/Afghanistan and guess what they told me. The Afghan people were nice and kind. The Iraqi people were nice and kind. We weren't bringing them democracy we were stealing their oil and guarding "opium fields". My friends saw basically NO TERRORIST and were just occupying these countries and building bases while stealing the resources our country needs. Oil for our war machine and Opium for big pharma.
One of them has PTSD as he was in a Humvee that was hit by an IED. When he went to fight against the "terrorist" at 20 years old he could never imagine the real reasons we were there and he lived to see it all.
This post was edited by SwamiVivekananda on Oct 22 2024 10:29am